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Stephen Dunn

"Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable"

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Dunn

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“We are the total of our longings.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.37, Hachette UK
“Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's just fantastic.”
“One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.”
“I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.”
“Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.14, Penguin
“If I was concerned about my legacy, thereâ€™s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about someÂ¬thing other than the music, then thatâ€™s what it is. Iâ€™ll never make that mistake.”
“You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.”
“Donâ€™t go looking for trouble; itâ€™s already looking for you.”

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